As Kombiz noted earlier, John McCain announced his candidacy tonight on Letterman. The McCain campaign posted the video on it’s site, viewable here.
As much as McCain is trying to be cool by announcing on a late night TV show and as much as his campaign is trying to be savvy by sending the video of […]

AP:
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge will serve as national co-chair of Republican John McCain’s presidential exploratory committee, the campaign said Wednesday.

This would probably be more impactful if Tom Ridge was still DHS Chair. McCain’s candidacy could really benefit from timely terror threat warnings. For example, “DHS Secretary Tom Ridge raised the terror threat level […]

Jeffrey Feldman has a can’t miss post up on Rudy Giuliani, America’s premier political transvestite.

The Hill is reporting that Mike Huckabee might drop his presidential bid to run for Senate against Mark Pryor in 2008. Huckabee has a presidential exploratory committee, but has not formally announced his candidacy for president. Some Republican supporters and bloggers in Arkansas are hoping Huckabee decides not to run for president and takes […]

Democratic lawmakers in the state legislature have put together a health care plan as an alternative to Rell’s non-plan plan. The Courant calls it a “universal health care plan,” but frankly that’s incorrect. This plan is more of a universal health care plan than Rell’s, but that doesn’t make it actually a plan that provides […]

Being petrified of brown people doesn’t make it OK to use your PAC’s money to promote your presidential campaign and buy TV ads in New Hampshire.
Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter, a California congressman, has used his political action committee to run New Hampshire television ads introducing himself to voters — in what some specialists say […]

Theodore Hamm, a Metropolitan College professor, has a revealing piece on Truthdig about Giuliani’s tenure as mayor. Focused around the screening of the new documentary, Giuliani Time, Hamm addresses Giuliani’s horrendous record on race.
Why is there such contempt for the man who never tires of reminding audiences of how he “saved” the city after 9/11? […]

One of the things that is often forgotten about the history of politicians and the industries that run the economies of their district is that no politician can ignore them. Rob Simmons (and Joe Lieberman) campaigned on working to save the Groton sub bases and securing contracts for the continued production of submarines. The implication […]

Chuck Hagel is considering a Unity Aught Eight run.
He said that if he ran he would seek the Republican nomination. Yet he’s also talking up Unity08. That’s a plan by a bipartisan group of political operatives to draft a bipartisan presidential ticket on the Internet and offer voters an alternative to the Democratic and Republican […]

Via Think Progress, we find out that Senate Dems are going to appease Lieberman to stop him from pitching a fit over Iraq:
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Lieberman is making it clear he does not want Iraq-related amendments attached to a bill scheduled for floor action this week that would implement unfulfilled recommendations of […]